A cleft lip and palate surgery programme kicked off in Dak Lak province on December 18, expected to benefit children with the deformities in seven provinces in the central and Central Highlands regions.

Safe housing was hailed as one of the successes of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a project to improve the resilience of Vietnam’s vulnerable coastal communities to climate change-related impacts, a conference held to review project implementation this year and discuss plans for 2021 heard.

Ambassador Tran Duc Binh, head of Vietnam’s permanent mission to ASEAN, highlighted the country’s outstanding achievements during its 2020 ASEAN Chairmanship in a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Industry and Trade, along with the Ministry of Finance, moved to push up petrol and oil prices at 4 p.m. on December 11, with the retail price of bio-fuel E5 RON 92 undertaking a rise of VND635 to VND15,129 per litre.

VOV.VN - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided a US$600,000 grant in-kind to assist Vietnam in its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Government Inspectorate of Vietnam together with the UN Development Fund (UNDP) organised a scientific seminar in Hanoi on December 9 to assess corruption risks in the country’s road transport sector.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has provided an additional US$800,000 for women and girls in Da Nang city and eight provinces in the central region affected by flooding in recent times, raising its total aid to US$1.34 million.

A workshop to review the implementation of agriculture development support projects in the 2019-2015 period funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been held in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Vietnam on November 27 announced that it will present 60 tonnes of products treating malnutrition for children living in disaster-hit areas of the country’s central region.

VOV.VN - Numerous regional and international news outlets have cited data released by a range of international economic research organizations and agencies to provide optimistic forecasts about the Vietnamese economy despite complicated developments relating to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic globally.